doesn t trust any of the bureaucrats and feels they re leakers and stooges and enemies surrounding him and lurking in the white house. hence the fresh meat like kudlow and bolton come in and he s going to try to establish a one-on-one relationship. i think general kelly, the fact it s been reiterated this week when comey got fired kelly was very sympathetic to comey probably has unnerved president trump some also. you said the lone rangers, right, is that what you said, kudlow? because he seems to be carving out a more public role than his predecessor gary cohn. do you think that s a risky gamble in this administration? yes, it s a very risky gamble. bolt n is seen as kind of a rogue thinker. he s beloved by the hard right,
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ran trump tower. chris, weave seen less and less of john kelly. we ve seen more of these reports that he s threatened to quit. why do you think he stays on? i think i mean, my sense of john kelly he s a marine. he s a stubborn marine. he s duty, honor country. i think he s probably unlikely to quit unless trump makes his life completely hellish. and i think trump may be unlikely to fire him if he thinks he can just bypass kelly and govern as i say without a white house chief of staff. the only thing worse than a white house with a flawed chief of staff is a white house with no chief of staff. i mean history shows jerry ford tried it and lasted a month, jimmy carter tried it. two and a half years later he realized his mistake. it was too late for carter. he was famous sly a guy who even
on within trump world right now that the president s starting to think about can i knock off some more players. chris, kelly s influence seems to be waning shawn hannity seems to be gaining more gaining a foot in the white house. and the washington post is reporting through a source saying, quote, he basically has a desk at the white house. you have the ethical concerns about that? again, it may be true. shawn hannity may be kind of a de facto chief of staff at this point. remember bill clinton used to come into the oval office at the end of his first term and he would rip up the script and change everything. and his advisers were wondering who was whispering to him at night. it turned out it was this vile character morris who was advoozing him. well, leon panetta was able to put a stop to that and take control of the process.
whisperer to fruchl. anyone in trump s orbit gets thrown out or doesn t have a long survival mechanism in place. this is what you re book is about, how important chief of staffs are. what do you make of this? there s no question kelly has been really undercut. he s been an empty barrel to use his phrase. i ve been saying for a hard time he s failed to speak hard truths to donald trump. trump has marginalized him now. as doug says it may be partly his paranoia but also this sense he can run it the same way he ran trump tower. chris, weave seen less and less of john kelly. we ve seen more of these reports that he s threatened to quit. why do you think he stays on? i think i mean, my sense of john kelly he s a marine. he s a stubborn marine. he s duty, honor country. i think he s probably unlikely to quit unless trump makes his life completely hellish. and i think trump may be